GIOVANNI DE ANGELIS
was born in Naples in 1969. He lives and works in Rome.
He first took up traditional photography as an adolescent and immediately developed a great interest in research into visual perception: in 2004 he started up a study, Luceveloce, which investigated the infinite potential of light and of its interaction with bodies. In 2005 and 2006, his investigations continued with Luce dissolve, which took him into a dimension on the borderline between painting and photography, in which solitary figures, either motionless or moving, passthrough beams of light with their shadows.
His research continued to evolve and he became increasingly interested in aspects of modernity, of Japanese and Indian metropolises and society, as we can see in Strade con pioggia, Sui iki and Churchgate, in which his interest in oriental culture is conveyed through ethno- anthropological eyes.
These works have been shown in many galleries. His interest in metropolises then continued in his Contemporary Districts project, in the cities of Tokyo, Tel Aviv, and Warsaw, and it still on-going in works that place young people and their settings at the centre of his research, discovering urban districts inhabited by a constantly changing umanity.
At times Giovanni De Angelis aims to recreate the memories of those who no longer have memory, as in the case of Sansone Elide, a project shown at the "ECC Ente Comunale di Consumo" group exhibition in 2010. The photographic Water Drops project tackles the theme of twinship from a twofold perspective - social and anthropological - freeing itself from the concept of mere reportage in order to examine the themes of identity, of the uniqueness of the individual, andof their relationships with the "other".
Subsequently the photographic research moves in a clear way towards the photographic portrait. The ART REWIND project is an important focus on Italian artists aged up to 50 years. The project becomes a book presented at the Venice Biennale and then an exhibition at the MACRO Museum in Rome in 2017. At the date, the project is still underway for the preparation of the second volume of ART REWIND.

Solo exhibitions (selection):
“ART REWIND #1” MACRO ( Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma ) Rome (2017);
“WATER DROPS” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, SÃO Paulo - Brasil -Avenida HigienÃpolis, 436 - SÃO Paulo - (2014);
“ICKU I Can Kill U” ,CO2 Gallery, Rome (2012);
“WATER DROPS” MACRO ( Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma ) Rome(2011);
“Contemporary Districts #2: TEL AVIV”, National Museum of Fine Arts, La Valletta MALTA (2010);
“Churchgate”, Galleria Loto Arte, Rome (2008);
“Contemporary Districts #1: Shibuya”, VI Roma Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Museo Nazionale di Arti Orientali, Rome (2007);
“Aqua Art”, Palazzo Donarelli Ricci, Rome (2007); “Luce Dissolve,” V Festival Internazionale della Fotografia, Rome (2006);
“Sui iki”, Galleria Doozo, Rome (2005)

He has also taken part in important group exhibitions in Italy, including:
"54th International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennal “ at Italian Pavillion "Lo Stato dell'arte - Campania” (2012);
"vesuvio quotidiano_vesuvio universale“ curated by Anna Imponente at Museo di San Martino, Naples (2019);
“ECC Ente Comunale di Consumo”, CIAC Centro Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea Genazzano, Rome (2010), Museo Nazionale di Cozenza (2011);
“Piazza d'Armi”, Emergency Room, PAN Palazzo delle Arti, Naples (2009);
“BATTITI”, Complesso Monumentale di San Michele, Rome (2009); “Diario Quotidiano”, MUSINF Museo d'arte Moderna, dell'Informazione e della Fotografia, Senigallia (2009);
“Codice 01”, DART Chiostro del Bramante, Rome (2007)

Group exhibitions (selection):
“PLASIR” | Salon Beauregard | Yverdon-les-Bains | Swiss | September 17 - October 31 2022
“99ARTS” Festival Internazionale di arti visive e performative IV edizione | Palazzo Doria Panphilij | San Martino al Cimino (VT) | 17-19 December 2021
“VOYAGE EN ITALIE” | Salon Beauregard | Yverdon-les-Bains | Swiss | December 4 2021 - January 15 2022
"FLUX" | curated by Flaminia Scauso | Salon Beauregard | Yverdon-les-Bains | Swiss | August 22 - October 31 2021
"CARTA BIANCA. UNA NUOVA STORIA. 49Artisti x 49 copertine VOGUE Italia" | curated by Valentina Ciarallo | Museo Gigi Guadagnucci | Massa Carrara - Italy | June 29 - September 26 2021
“ART HEALS” | a cura di Claudia Pecoraro | Rome and all over the world | 27 February 2020
“Warriors of freedom” | a cura di Angelo Cricchi | Howtown space | via dell’arco de Ginnasi, 5 Roma | 20 February 2020
“Transfusioni #20.02.2020” | Omaggio a Costantino Dardi | a cura di Anna D’Elia | Lavatoio Contumaciale ! P.zza Perin del Vaga, 4 - Roma | February 20 2020
“VISIONS” | Salon Beauregard | Yverdon-les-Bains | Swiss | 2 December 2019 - January 20 2020
"LA CAMERA LUCIDA" | curated by Digid'a & Studio Arte Pisani | Studio Arte Pisani | Rome | March 22 - April 26
"vesuvio quotidiano_vesuvio universale" | curated by Anna Imponente | Museo di San Martino | Napoli | July 6 - September 29
"MATRIARCHY & FEMALE MUSES: East, Middle East and West" | curated by Giuseppe Ruffo | coGalleries, Torstrasse 170 | Berlin | 15-28 January 2019
"Open Cluster" | Studio Pisani | curated by Giulia Giovanardi | | Rome | 22-27 October 2018
"Tutorial sirtaki" | on going by Elena Bellantoni & Mariana Ferratto
"Sogno Temesa" | Anna Cipparrone curator | Amantea | Augusst 27 - September 2 2015
"Naked City Project Photographic Festival" | Rome | 27-28 February 2015
“Togli il fermo|let it go"| American Academy | Rome | November 25 - December 16 2013
"Quadratonomade" | Palazzo delle Esposizioni | Rome | February 29 - March 4 2012
"ECC Ente Comunale di Consumo "| Claudio Libero Pisano curator | Palazzo Venezia | Roma | December 16 2011 - January 16 2012
"FOTOGRAFIA Festival 2012 " | Antonello Colonna Arte | Labico - Roma | September 24 - October 28 2012
“ARTiculate 2011"| Saffonart London | London | Oct 3 2011
"54th International Art Exhibition - Venice Bienna" | Italian Pavillion | "Lo Stato dell'arte - Campania" | Ex Tabacchificio Centola | Pontecagnano | September 29 2011 - January 10 2012
"Disonora il Padre" | CO2 Gallery | Rome | September 15 - October 1 2012
"ECC Ente Comunale di Consumo" | Claudio Libero Pisano curator | Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza - Palazzo Arnone| Cosenza | May 15 - June 19
"ECC Ente Comunale di Consumo"| Claudio Libero Pisano curator | CIAC Centro Internazionale di arte contemporanea | Genazzano (RM) |December 10 - March 2 2010
"BATTITI" | Claudio Libero Pisano curator | Complesso munumentale del San Michele | Rome | 10-25 September 2009
"Diario Quotidiano" | MUSINF Museo arte Moderna Informazione e Fotografia | Senigallia | 16-30 May 2009
"Piazza d'Armi" | Emergency Room | PAN Palazzo delle Arti | Naples | 10-20 April 2009
"Codice 01" | DART Chiostro del Bramante | Rome | December 1 - February 15 2007
"Foto.grafica.mente" | Galleria La Pigna | Rome | 21-30 January 2006
"Proposte Segni Lucigrafici" | Galleria la Pigna | Rome | January 27 - February 12 2005
"Transiti" | Associazione Culturale Artfest | Rome | 11-13 June 2024